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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: hunt

1	v n	pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
2	v n	seek, search for the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
3	v	pursue or chase relentlessly
4	v	oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: hunt

v pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

“Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland”

“The Duke hunted in these woods”

Synonyms:: hunt down, run, track down

: run
cause an animal to move fast

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hunt or shoot snipe; whale
hunt for whales; ambush, still-hunt
hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing; turtle
hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation; drive
hunting: chase from cover into more open ground; drive
hunting: search for game; rabbit
hunt rabbits; fowl
hunt fowl in the forest; poach
hunt illegally; seal
hunt seals; ferret
hunt with ferrets; course
hunt with hounds; foxhunt
hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs; jack, jacklight
hunt with a jacklight; hawk
hunt with hawks; falcon
hunt with falcons; fowl
hunt fowl; forage, scrounge
collect or look around for (food); grouse
hunt grouse; rustle
forage food

Type of:: capture, catch
capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping

v search (an area) for prey

“The King used to hunt these forests”

Synonyms: hunt down, run, track down
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

Type of:: look, search
search or seek

n an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

Synonyms:: hunt club

Type of:: club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social club, society
a formal association of people with similar interests

n the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

Synonyms:: hunting

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a hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections; stalk, stalking, still hunt
a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush; birdnesting
hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs; predation
the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey; deerstalking
stalking deer

Type of:: labor, labour, toil
productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

n the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

Synonyms:: hunting

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a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter; beagling
hunting rabbits with beagles; coursing
hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent; deer hunt, deer hunting
hunting deer; duck hunting, ducking
hunting ducks; fox hunting, foxhunt
mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox; pigsticking
the sport of hunting wild boar with spears

Type of:: field sport, outdoor sport
a sport that is played outdoors; blood sport
sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting)

v seek, search for

“She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them”

Type of:: look for, search, seek
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

n the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

Synonyms:: hunting, search

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; exploration
a careful systematic search; forage, foraging
the act of searching for food and provisions; frisk, frisking
the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs; looking, looking for
the act of searching visually; manhunt
an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime); quest, seeking
the act of searching for something; ransacking, rummage
a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion); scouring
moving over territory to search for something; shakedown
a very thorough search of a person or a place; strip search
searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes; probe
an exploratory action or expedition

Type of:: activity
any specific behavior

n an instance of searching for something

“the hunt for submarines”

Type of:: search
the examination of alternative hypotheses

v pursue or chase relentlessly

Synonyms:: hound, trace

Types:: ferret
hound or harry relentlessly

Type of:: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail
go after with the intent to catch

v chase away, with as with force

“They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood”

Type of:: drive out, force out, rouse, rout out
force or drive out

v oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent

“The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency”

Type of:: oscillate, vibrate
move or swing from side to side regularly

v yaw back and forth about a flight path

Type of:: yaw
deviate erratically from a set course

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